Quote Originally Posted by splott parker View Post
Interestingly, the play offs, then known as test matches, were introduced in the 1892-93 season. As is now, it was a way of determining promotion & relegation and, as the play offs that we know now were originally, involved the bottom sides of the division above as well as the top sides in the division below.

1987 was a revival of a system almost a hundred years before.
Germany operate a similar system I believe